Taki Soma

Taki Soma tells her life story in a series of four-page vignettes that -- as she predicted in her afterword -- left me wanting to know more. I've spent the last hour and a half reading about the 1996 murder of Christina Marie "Christi" Mendoza and the long overdue resignation of Charles Brownstein in 2020 from the Comic Book Legal Defense fund 14 years after he sexually assaulted Soma and engaged in patterns of abuse and workplace harassment before and after her charges.

Soma has had more than her fair share of hardships and this book introduces any number of topics that I hope she will revisit in longer form sometime in the near future.… (altro)